Obs and gynae begins
Hello again!
I'm back after a three week holiday, to stary year 5. Interestingly, this "term" is longer than a whole year's worth of undergraduate terms at Oxford!
We're now in firms of about 27 students, which we chose ourselves by a ballot system. Each firm rotates round a series of 8-week attachments, and my firm is starting with obstetrics and gynaecology. We've got two weeks of teaching (mostly lectures) to start with, followed by clinical experience of delivering babies etc, for which I'm off to Stoke Mandeville hospital in Ayelsbury.
The teaching so far has been great - we had an introductory day (with quite a lot of waffle, but the impression that the attachment is well-organised by thise in charge), and we've had lecture on normal labour, menstrual disorders and menopause & HRT today. This afternoon we had an ethics session on termination, discussing our views and the law around a few case studies.
We also have a bit of hands-on experience during the lecture course, with a clinic or two, some laparoscopy training, and practise at vaginal examinations on "clinical teaching associates" (normal, healthy women who are paid to teach us how to examine their own gynaecology). But more about that when I get to it!
I'm back after a three week holiday, to stary year 5. Interestingly, this "term" is longer than a whole year's worth of undergraduate terms at Oxford!
We're now in firms of about 27 students, which we chose ourselves by a ballot system. Each firm rotates round a series of 8-week attachments, and my firm is starting with obstetrics and gynaecology. We've got two weeks of teaching (mostly lectures) to start with, followed by clinical experience of delivering babies etc, for which I'm off to Stoke Mandeville hospital in Ayelsbury.
The teaching so far has been great - we had an introductory day (with quite a lot of waffle, but the impression that the attachment is well-organised by thise in charge), and we've had lecture on normal labour, menstrual disorders and menopause & HRT today. This afternoon we had an ethics session on termination, discussing our views and the law around a few case studies.
We also have a bit of hands-on experience during the lecture course, with a clinic or two, some laparoscopy training, and practise at vaginal examinations on "clinical teaching associates" (normal, healthy women who are paid to teach us how to examine their own gynaecology). But more about that when I get to it!
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